[serge2k]

The lie they are selling is that anyone can learn to code in 10 weeks. While this maybe true if you are targeting the correct subset of the population (those who do have a natural aptitude), it's not true of a random sample of the entire population. Since these schools sample from the entire population, their chances of producing large numbers of skilled software developers are low, and therefore they will do little to help with the shortages of those developers.

Sounds like a reasonable argument to me.

[austenallred]

I don't think anyone pretends like you can "learn to code" in 10 weeks any more than I "learned to speak Russian" in my three-month intensive Russian course. Of course I didn't speak fluently by the time I left.

But I learned enough that when I lived in Ukraine I understood a bit of what people were saying, I could communicate somewhat, and a couple of years later I was reading Tolstoy.

People think about bootcamps all wrong. You don't leave like "holy shit I'm a master programmer." You leave knowing, "OK, it'll take a while longer, but I can contribute a bit now, and I'll pick up more as I go."